{"id":60963,"date":"2015-03-25T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60963"},"modified":"2015-03-22T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T18:26:57","slug":"mccarthy-to-celebrate-reading-in-music-at-the-opl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60963","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy to Celebrate Reading in Music at the OPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\" alt=\"oneida-public-library\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>(Oneida, NY \u2013 March 2015) In a special Spring Break appearance, singer, guitarist and songwriter Jim McCarthy comes to Oneida Public Library\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0March 31 at\u00a02 p.m.\u00a0to perform his special library program \u201cCelebrate Reading,\u201d a sing-along concert of funny and lively tunes that celebrate children\u2019s books, their authors and famous characters.<\/p>\n<p>As a plus, McCarthy will stay on after the show to demonstrate to elementary- and middle-school students the full range of sounds that his electric guitar can do and even let the students try the guitar out.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy last appeared at the OPL in December in a Holiday Concert with his wife Deidre and their two sons.\u00a0The McCarthy Family regularly performs in Central New York, most recently at the New York State Fair, the Syracuse Irish Festival, the Golden Harvest Festival at Beaver Lake and several venues in their hometown of Central Square.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, a former public-school music teacher, also performs thematic presentations in words and original songs for school assemblies. His latest subject concerns combating bullying.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 March 2015) In a special Spring Break appearance, singer, guitarist and songwriter Jim McCarthy comes to Oneida Public Library\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0March 31 at\u00a02 p.m.\u00a0to perform his special library program \u201cCelebrate Reading,\u201d a sing-along concert of funny and lively tunes that celebrate children\u2019s books, their authors and famous characters. As a plus, McCarthy will stay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}